wxMaxima, big integers and XXX[X digits]XXX



On 10/26/06, Humberto Bortolossi <humberto.bortolossi at gmail.com> wrote:
>  Greetings!
>
> I'm using wxMaxima 0.7.0a with Maxima 5.10.0. Trying to compute
>
> 1234^123;
>
> wxMaxima gives:
>
> 170515806212727042875059727620[321 digits]418529766279838067203562799104
>
> I would like to see ALL digits. Is there an option to make wxMaxima
> show the complete answer? I've tried to mark the option "Show long
> expressions", but it doesn't work!

You can change the display to ascii (select 'Maxima->Change 2d
display' from menus). This will display expressions in the same way
that they are displayed in xmaxima or console.

Andrej